Evangelical Church (Rhaunen)
The Evangelical Church Rhaunen (Hunsrück) is a church in Rhaunen of the Protestant parish Rhaunen-Hausen in the district of Birkenfeld in Rhineland-Palatinate . It goes to the early 8./9. Century back.
Church history
Rhaunen is mentioned for the first time in the 8th century as the property of the Lorsch monastery , in 841 Rhaunen came into the possession of the Fulda monastery . The surrounding villages were settled from Rhaunen. The parish is first recorded in 1271. A church dedicated to St. Martin is mentioned in 1277 . The Reformation was introduced in Rhaunen in the spring of 1560 by the Lutheran Wild and Rhine Count Philipp Franz. The first Protestant pastor was Georg von Hasborn (1560–1571). During the Thirty Years War, Rhaunen was again Catholic for a few years. From 1685, the time of the French occupation until the replacement of the Simultaneums in 1888 by the construction of a Catholic church, it was a simultaneous church . Since 2004, Rhaunen has been connected to the parish with Hausen and merged with her in 2012. Since 2011, there has been a connection between the community of Rhaunen-Hausen and Hottenbach - Stipshausen and Sulzbach . There are nine preaching sites in the community.
Architecture and equipment
The hall church is a plastered quarry stone building with a length of 19.60 m, width of 10.10 m and height of 4.30 m (up to the main cornice ). The three-sided asymmetrical choir was built in the 2nd half of the 15th century, the nave around 1700. In 1767 the choir was restored. The ribs and the fish bubble tracery are still preserved from the originally vaulted choir . There is a late Gothic tabernacle on the north wall of the choir, and remains of late Gothic frescoes on the south wall. The north wall of the nave with its ogival windows was built in the late 19th century. On the eastern column there is a simple polygonal wooden pulpit from 1773. Its former sound cover is on the ground floor of the tower.
organ
In the church is the oldest surviving organ by Johann Michael Stumm and thus also the oldest organ of the Stumm family of organ builders . It was built in 1723 as a one-manual instrument with 13 registers and a trailing action , renovated, rebuilt and expanded in 1934 by the Oberlinger company and, in 1979, as an example of many later organ renovations by the Johannes Klais Orgelbau company, returned to its original state of 1723 and has since then been restored to its original condition original disposition and action. The organ stands next to the altar on an oak gallery. The organ front shows arkantus carvings as a veil .
tower
The tower was probably part of the church mentioned in 1277. He received his current helmet around 1750 - according to another source in the 2nd half of the 16th century.
Bells
Two cast steel bells hang in the tower , which were cast by the Bochum Association in 1922 .
use
Services are held roughly twice a month. In addition to being used for worship services, (organ) concerts and other events take place in the church on a regular basis.
literature
- Hans Vogts : The art monuments of the district of Bernkastel (= The art monuments of the Rhine province Volume 15, 1). L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1935, pp. 326-330.
- Ulrike Weber-Karge, Maria Wenzel (edit.): District of Birkenfeld (= cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 11 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1993, ISBN 3-88462-099-1 , p. 418-419 .
- Erich Stoll, Rhaunen. Its history - its people ; Rhaunen; 1988
Web links
- Rhaunen on the website of the Evangelical Church District Trier, accessed on June 30, 2015
- Sound samples of the silent organs and a. also in this church
- Information about the Stumm organs, their churches and viewing options at the Rhaunen FG
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Information from the Trier parish on the Rhaunen parish
- ↑ a b c d Hans Vogts: The art monuments of the district of Bernkastel (= The art monuments of the Rhine province Volume 15, 1). L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1935, pp. 326-330.
- ↑ Ulrike Weber-Karge, Maria Wenzel (arrangement): District of Birkenfeld (= cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 11 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1993, ISBN 3-88462-099-1 , p. 418-419 .
- ↑ a b Information about the silent organs and their churches of the VG Rhaunen
Coordinates: 49 ° 51 ′ 47.6 " N , 7 ° 20 ′ 46.5" E